Demographics: State budgets threatened by declining populations
Low fertility rates are already beginning to impact state budgets.
Finance: Why Basic Income Studies Produce Useless Results
Universal Basic Income makes no sense in the real world but they keep trying.
International: About 100 million Americans to leave U.S. after next election
Pro tip: Houses should be a LOT cheaper in 2025!
Software: Professional Software Engineer licensure
Does the CrowdStrike fiasco imply a need for Professional Engineer licensing for software engineers working on critical infrastructure?
Climate, Education: We must revert to a degrowth, socialist utopia
We must grow academic programs in degrowth to achieve degrowth. Or something.
Climate: To save the climate do not eat any meat
It is the weekly academic junk science study calling for a de facto ban on eating meat (and the corollary ban on having pet dogs and cats).
Business, Policy: Today’s Tariffs are for restricting trade
Tariff increases are a sign of less global trade in the future and are being enacted as a new Cold War tool against China. Consumers will come out losers.
Climate: To stop the ClimateCrisis, we must adopt “Degrowth Communism”
This isn't a parody: Activist advocates for "degrowth Communism", bans on travel, eating meat, heating, and rule by technocratic elite government officials.
Nation of Idiots
Policy/Government
Public Health/Nutrition
Science
Software
Software Quality
Stupidity
Public health Reminder: 4 years since UCL’s Neil Ferguson made a fool of himself
4 years since the architect of lockdown broke his own lockdown rules, went off and had a fling, while recovering from Covid-19.